Your Call
Summary: KALW's call-in show: Politics and culture, dialogue and debate.
Podcasts:
On the next Your Call, it’s our media roundtable. This week we’ll have a conversation about the Arab states' decision to isolate Qatar as well as the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War.
We’ll have a conversation with ride-hailing drivers, from taxis to Uber about how the industry ought to be regulated.
On today's Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with 2017 Peacemaker Award recipient, the Roadmap to Peace.
We’ll revisit our conversation with investigative journalist Jane Mayer. We'll speak to Mayer about her piece in the New Yorker on Robert Mercer, the hedge-fund tycoon who made major investments to ensure Donald Trump’s victory.
It’s our media roundtable. This week, we’ll discuss the risks of reporting in Mexico, including the recent shooting death of the well-known Mexican journalist Javier Valdez.
We’ll talk about how congressional Republicans and the White House have used an obscure law to repeal regulations passed in the final months of the Obama administration.
We’ll have a conversation about the San Francisco International Arts Festival, which takes place from May 25th to June 4th.
We’ll have a conversation with Françoise Girard, president of the International Women's Health Coalition, about President Donald Trump’s v ast expansion of the Mexico City Policy, also known as the " Global Gag Rule."
This week, we’ll discuss coverage of the growing political chaos in Washington DC. According to the NY Times, a memo by FBI chair James Comey says Donald Trump asked him to end the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn and his ties to Russia. We'll get the latest.
How did California become the third-biggest oil producing state?
How much influence do the wealthy wield over our lives and public policy?
We’ll have a conversation about The Beat Within, a writing and conversation program in juvenile halls. The organization serves over 5,000 youth through workshops in California county juvenile halls.
The 2016 election was the first election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act.
On this week's media roundtable, coverage of Donald Trump's abrupt firing of FBI director James Comey. The decision is being compared to Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” in October 1973, when he fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor handling the Watergate scandal. How should news organizations cover this story?
Authors Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi join us to discuss their new book , Fred Korematsu Speaks Up .